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Downtown Greensboro Inc

Promote and stimulate new investment, interest and economic development in the center city area of greensboro, north carolina.

$546k
Granted FY2023
4
Itemized grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$496k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$425,884
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Downtown Greensboro Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20234$496k100%
FY20227$94k86%
FY20216$96k83%
FY20202$30k50%
FY20194$121k25%
FY20189$200k100%
FY20173$57kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Community Improvement$522kArts & Culture$283kScience & Tech$66kRecreation & Sports$63kFood & Nutrition$56kYouth Development$31kEducation$31kHuman Services$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Downtown Greensboro Foundation$425,884140%
Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc$153,00024%
The Foundation for NC A&T State University$66,324111%
Greensboro Downtown Parks Inc$62,65033%
The Fresh Market$50,0001n/a
Forge Greensboro$26,50034%
Action Greensboro$25,71021%
112 W Lewis Street Qozb LLC$25,0001n/a
Greensboro Children's Museum Inc$25,00011%
The Experiential School of Greensboro Inc$25,0001n/a
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All grantees of Downtown Greensboro Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Downtown Greensboro Foundation$425,884140%
Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc$153,00024%
The Foundation for NC A&T State University$66,324111%
Greensboro Downtown Parks Inc$62,65033%
The Fresh Market$50,0001n/a
Forge Greensboro$26,50034%
Action Greensboro$25,71021%
112 W Lewis Street Qozb LLC$25,0001n/a
Greensboro Children's Museum Inc$25,00011%
The Experiential School of Greensboro Inc$25,0001n/a
Neighbors Gso LLC$25,0001n/a
Nomunication LLC$20,0001n/a
International Downtown Association$15,00011%
United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc$10,00010%
North Carolina Folk Festival$10,00012%
The Abbey Taphouse$9,0671n/a
Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce Inc$8,25010%
Piedmont Properties LLC$6,5001n/a
Seafood Destiny Downtown LLC$6,0001n/a
Selfie Spot Co$5,8471n/a
Elon University$5,79110%
Brown Investment Properties$5,6251n/a
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra Inc$5,55010%
Center Pointe Condo Owners Association$5,4081n/a
The Historic Magnolia House$5,3341n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Downtown Greensboro Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDowntown Greensboro Foundation: $425,884 over 1y, 40% of budgetCarolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc: $153,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetThe Foundation for NC A&T State University: $66,324 over 1y, 11% of budgetGreensboro Downtown Parks Inc: $62,650 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetForge Greensboro: $26,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetAction Greensboro: $25,710 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGreensboro Children's Museum Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetInternational Downtown Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Arts Council of Greensboro Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Carolina Folk Festival: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGreensboro Area Chamber of Commerce Inc: $8,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElon University: $5,791 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreensboro Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,550 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Downtown Greensboro Inc

How much does Downtown Greensboro Inc give?
Downtown Greensboro Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $495,884, out of $545,830 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Downtown Greensboro Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (47%), Arts & Culture (25%), Science & Tech (6%).
Who are Downtown Greensboro Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Downtown Greensboro Foundation ($426k), Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc ($153k), The Foundation for NC A&T State University ($66k).
Does Downtown Greensboro Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Downtown Greensboro Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Downtown Greensboro Inc based?
Downtown Greensboro Inc is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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